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Totally disagree about P’s comment on the worst line of poetry being from The Windhover

Liberal naturalism is cool

Religions are the goalposts of cruel and crude desires ,cruel for others and crude for US.

Thank you, Iain, for your more complete sense of Buddhism. I attended a talk on Buddhism here, then heard and was instantly drawn to a Zen master here in Canada although I had entered the room as a technical atheist and only decided to hear his talk out of curiosity ....which does not kill the cat. I entered through one door and exited another, one wholly unfamiliar yet that I instantly recognized as mine. As my door : Zen. I retired early to attend longer practices and was with my teacher for about twenty years, until his death. For anyone who conceives Buddhism as some emotionally disconnected "practice of emptiness"...I was never so agonized by longing as I was during my longer sessions. My teacher comforted and encouraged me. It made the longing bearable, so that the practice could go on. Incidentally, I entered my own home after the talk and received the shock of my life. Since I had left the Catholic Church in my late teens, with much suffering, I had begun to collect statues, some quite large. With the jolt from my encounter with the Zen teacher, I recognized...Oh my God. All these statues are...Buddhist. Every one of them was a buddha or bodhisattva, as I learned from reading and looking at images. The figures apart from a label had drawn me nearly magnetically. At times when I bought, I had no money to buy, but somehow I dis.. These purchases dwindled after I began work with my teacher. Dwindled, not ended, such was the impulsion of my longing.

Great

4/41 Do not use Jacobite/Monophysite on one extreme or Nestorian on other extreme Instead use 20years old invented word Miaphysite for Monophysite One Nature while Chalcedon is Two Natures/Diaphysite Nestorian church rejects 431AD Ephesus but not Oriental/Monophysites who reject 4th Council 451 AD Two Ambiguous terms Physus/and Hypostasis have caused terrible confusion so much so that Emperor Zeno 482 Henoticon omits both 9/33 Irony of Emperor Justinian Libelli Certificates imposing Chalcedon when he could not convert his own wife to Chalcedon After this imposition stance of Anti Chalcedon hardens and Rise of Islam not long after Ensures Divided Church remains permanent EK and EN/ ONE LETTER difference similar to Homousios and Homoiousios of earlier Arian debates Conception emphasized by Miaphysites versus Ascencion Emphasized by Chalcedon video 15/05 Not clear why modern view insists on both whereas Historical view was either /or Only by Tenth/Eleventh Century proportion of Christian to Muslim changes with latter becoming more than former/tables turned

Very clear explanations on the history of traditional historic churches. But one thing is obvious now that even though there is a potential for the unity of Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, I don't think there will be any potential for the unity of the west (Roman Catholic) with the Eastern Orthodox churches including Orientals because Roman Catholic is drifting away from church traditional teachings in this Day N age. For instance, their pope allowing a blessings of same sex couples recently. This is being seen by both Eastern and Orientals as heretics to the extreme.

Sorry to the Duke of Brabant about the company I some time keep. Shared values are meaningful for good states of affairs but justifiable for illumination of human nature of all of us gets us into problems of sweeping brushes of nature.

Thanks Who is like god Lacewing.

In truth the way to live is like who is like Gods servant with wins that aren’t as transparent as General Superior Arturo Sosa S.J, talking about the devil being a symbolic reality and not a personal reality sometimes. It’s all in the book. Not just the Yellow pages springing epistemology out of psamistry. You will not learn how to rise from the dead from it properly though.

Thank youuu Sir Sobraaa

This guy teachers re at my school, I think he’s a decent teacher but so many people hate him

Sheer lunacy.

Whyre you calling yourself a ''mother'' instead of a father of midwiving the Earth or whatever?

Yes. I am looking for something beyond me. My life depends upon it. A very heartfelt thank you to Dr. McGilchrist for your courage, your many years of research, your philosophical inquiry. I am feeling and thinking 100 percent better...I am a better person and I will carry this with me.

What an absolute load of utter shite 😂

I agree with Jays opener- Eliot was a very purposeful, deeply religious writer and his books his poems were christian purposed - and paradoxical - he grapples and appeals to me for that reason. If one is not grappling with the spiritual then one cant fully buy into Eliot. In contrast, I just read John Berrymans Dream Songs which i found pining on my bookshelf. He was not a spiritual man. Berryman' was bereft, he had only his talent, he wrote about his lovers, his friends and his depression. That was about it. It wasnt enough.

Yes loved this

Beautiful

Superb!

On the problem of evil it is a non-issue, since being is better than not-being plus noone deserves heaven, one could argue that just because someone don't deserve heaven it does not follow that he deserves hell, but that argument will also ultimately fail down the line. There are other problems with this view it however. I do not see how this view of the will is compatible with the concept of mortal sin. What's more: once you have such a view of the will, you will be tempted to conclude that God created the world out of necessity or there is no meaningful analogy between creature and creator and the "image of God" is void of meaning. This is why I am utterly convinced that the will precedes the intellect.

I spent a few years in the Jesuits, but I did not go to Heythrop. Instead, I was sent to France, to study at the Jesuit philosophate at Chantilly. I had a very brief acquaintance with Heythrop just before leaving the order altogether. At that time, it did not seem to have a good reputation and my own path was marked out as novitiate (at Harlaxton), philosophy (in France), degree (Campion Hall, Oxford), regency (probably Stonyhurst), theology (Gregorian in Rome), tertianship (at St Beuno's in Wales). After leaving, I started my Ph.D at Harvard and finished it at University College London. UCL was the place where a brilliant professor (Myles Burnyeat) had moved to after a temporary lectureship at Harvard. He later moved to All Soul's Oxford and I finished my Ph.D with Richard Sorabji at King's College London. I moved to Japan and spent many years as a professor at Hiroshima University. My areas were Aristotle and Wittgenstein and two of my favorite teachers were Anscombe and Geach.

Transcript: channelmcgilchrist.com/writing/longing-and-wanting/

I have spent over 70 years of my life, almost daily, paying attention to what goes on in my brain and other people's brains for good reason that I write about in my memoirs. So I agree with everything Iain says, especially that the two sides DO pay attention to different things, like he says. I am rare in that nobody spends as much time in years as he and I have to discover these things. In fact I experience the use of both hemispheres, now being well developed, as the most balanced way we can live and BE. It is Nirvana maybe, or mystical, in any case beyond beautiful.

Research note: so we return the mind… (yagyu munenori)

Too many digressions! I wish he would focus on the poem itself. Just too general comment. Not enlightening at all.

This discussion sounds very left brainwash! x

Have you thought that there might be a THIRD WAY? x

TSE would say to Prof. Parini: Go back, go back, to Aristotle.

Jesus had no pretensions? That's pretty obtuse.

Nice talk; too much harping on fundamentalism; TSE would hold to dogma as a liberation; too critical of Fr. Hopkins.

Speaking from the Buddhist point of view (which is actually not possible beyond a certain point because different traditions have different perspectives) - 'longing for nirvana' would be more applicable to the Theravadin traditions of Sri Lanka, Thailand etc. The Mahayana traditions emphasise Buddhanature, the 'longing' in that sense is driven by the intuition that the boundless, infinite, joyous state of buddhahood being perennially imminent. Ironically, our dissatisfaction is driven by our sense that there is something transcendental, our buddhanature, in that sense, is the cause of our suffering (I say this slightly tongue in cheek, I'm not countering the four noble truths)

He is so damn eloquent it makes me want to read shakeapear and learn french read the classics climb a mountain slay a dragon...

Good talk

Is Brock catholic?

This deserves a million views.

The essens of God in/con-sists in his own Negation, in his Not-being.

Philosophie has no history, but a continuous attempt to refute itself. There's only Pre-socratic nonsense and Post-platonic drivel.

I wonder if it is possible to obtain a transcript of this session. Anyone know?

This is quite possibly one of the greatest lectures of all time.

He spent 7 minutes just reciting quotes. That is how much power is needed to combat left-brain thinking, people who are so narrow minded that they need a mountain of evidence to move them before they can even begin to contemplate something beyond the limits of their left brains.

Wow, that was absolutely fabulous.

Dr Brock has a very scholarly presentation. We Learn a lot about the variety of Christianities of the late classical and early medieval Middle East.

beautiful

And while they disputed about terminology, Islam took control of the Christian Middle East..... seems to me that that lesson hasn’t been fully understand.

I’m reminded of something said by a gifted scientist friend: “The mark of a good scientist is their willingness to say ‘I don’t know.’”

I would really like to know how Iain is getting on with his new book.

I'd very much like to see a transcript of the quote from Erwin Chargaff with which Mr. McGilchrist begins this talk. Does anyone know if transcripts for these talks are available?

Sincerely, thank you Taliaferro. What a beautiful mind.

I feel that beauty (aesthetics) relates to something 1) ephemeral. A rainbow, or a child's giggle , flower blooms in the desert after the rain. Words don't give justice to beauty for how can beauty have words? Maybe a brick or a maths equation have beauty. Maybe it is 2) subjective (only in the eyes of the beholder). 3) relative - we see thousands of pictures everyday in this world of digital, data, and information., my mind is trying to continually sort out the crap from the gold. It gives me headaches sometimes. Maybe its my small brain.4) meaning-- an art work on a cave in France had meaning to the artist when he killed the bison, ate it , shared it .,respected ,it. Doodling with a pencil would not be considered as beauty to most people. To see a great piece of architecture or sculpture for the FIRST time invokes a sense of awe and wonder, just as much as looking at a view from a mountain for the first time. After a hundred times it becomes a bit boring. Why do we seek perfection? How long is a piece of string? Are quarks and leptons seeking recognition in parliament? Time for a cuppa.